Halloween by the numbers

October 23, 2012

Halloween is celebrated many different ways, including wearing costumes, children trick-or-treating, carving pumpkins, and going to haunted houses and parties. The U.S. Census Bureau did a little number-crunching and came up with these fun facts.

Michael Paulsen / Houston Chronicle

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$113 MILLION - Value of pumpkins harvested from the top six
pumpkin-producing states, Illinois, California, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan in 2011.